| For My Mother |
[09 Dec 2009|12:18pm] |
For My Mother I’m starting to accept That we’ll never have A real mother-daughter relationship. There’s just too much anger and disappointment And resentment between us. All it does is build, So there’s no hope to heal And I just want to stop, Stop hearing all the ways I’ve fucked up. I’m insecure enough All on my own. I can’t keep being The one who isn’t good enough.
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| A Real, Live Post |
[30 Nov 2009|10:53am] |
I use livejournal. I promise. I'm on top of all my communities and all my author blogs. I even have a paid account. I just kind of suck at actually updating with more than the automated Twitter reposts. But here I am, ready to blog... ish.
I just finished my latest poetry notebook, so I feel like I've accomplished something. I even managed to fill this one in less than a year. And I bought a new notebook that I'm prepping to write in today. This will be notebook number 14. They all look different, but I've become very methodical in the way I fill them out. Pages need to be numbered. Seeing the numbers go by makes me feel like I'm making a dent in the book. Full name in the front cover. I tried to find my book label things (which have a proper name that I've conveniently forgotten) while I was home for Thanksgiving, but my parents have re-arranged my room. Next page is some inspiring quotations. This book has some Henry Rollins, George Eliot, Nancy Mair, David James Duncan, C.S. Lewis, Diane Von Furstenburg, Lord Byron, W.H. Auden and Mark Twain. The inside back cover says "Fourteenth book of poetry." When I actually start writing, every poem gets dated at the top of the page.
I got kind of lax in the poetry writing department once in high school. I attribute this to going off medication for ADD. Which, for the most part, was a good thing, since it kind of fucked me up a little. In 8th grade, in a fit of super-concentration, I wrote a long letter to my English teacher explaining to her how she was a terrible teacher and no one respected her. Then I gave said letter to her. And there was that 8 day period, also in the eighth grade, that I wrote 120 poems.
So I've been making myself write two poems a day since November 3rd. And while they started off as complete pieces of shit, they've started to become decent.
I also went to two poetry readings this summer, after a two year hiatus due to working senior year and being in Buffalo last year. I'm still in Buffalo, but I'm supposed to go to the December reading while I'm home. They've moved from the inconvenient location in Smithtown, to a really inconvenient location in Sachem. Yay! But it was good to see Jeanette, who is in her nineties, and still hosting the readings. Mankh still has trouble remembering my name, which is irksome. I went to my first reading when I was thirteen; he should remember it.
School is boring the shit out of me. I'm not as fascinated with Classics and Archaeology, but I'm more interesting in finishing school than I am in finding something I want to study. Besides, I'm fairly certain I don't want to study. I just want to write.
Bored now. Ending post.
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